Shahid Latif, From Landing First F-16 To Evaluating The Gripen

[MastanKhan]

The guy doesn’t make sense.
He is overrates the JF17 to the point were he lacks credibility.
An example is a couple of years back he claimed the JF17 is better than the J10. The reason…..because the JF17 has featured in more airshows……from his logic the JF17 is better than the J20. PAF ended up going for the J10 when the JF17 was found out in exercises.
One thing you’ll never hear is how much of a nightmare the JF17 is for ground crew, how short legged it is in combat (barely able to carry a payload at the basic level). How bad and jammable the early radars were.the fact the blk2 holds no key advantage over the BLk 1. There’s no shame in admitting it helped the aviation sector in Pakistan but to overrate it claiming it will challenge rafale is bullshit

Hi,

The highlighted part is incorrect---.

Paf went for the J10c's because the aesa equipped JF17 BLK 3 was not ready and with the coming imminent threat of rafale---paf made the procurement of the ready to take possession J-10 C's---.

Early radars were as jammable as the indian radars were on february 27th---.

Here is a brand new aircraft---brand new power plant---brand new structure---everything build up from scratch---communication problems and what not---electronics santions by the french---and still the Paf has come out ahead of the ball game--.

It was a herculean task, but taken charge of with success by the Paf---.

Most fighter aircraft are a nightmare to maintain and service in the first few years of---.